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9 Attachment 1 RLTP JUNE 2021 at Board VERSION TO AT BOARD 28 JUNE Auckland Regional Land Transport Plan 2021-2031 Auckland Regional Land Transport Plan 2021–2031 The Regional Land Transport Plan 2021-2031 sets out the land transport objectives, policies and measures for the Auckland region over the next 10 years. It includes the land transport activities of Auckland Transport, Auckland Council, Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency, KiwiRail, and other agencies. VERSION TO AT BOARD 28 JUNE 1 Auckland Regional Land Transport Plan 2021–2031 Contents 01. Introduction from the Chair 3 02. Context 5 03. Feedback from consultation 13 04. Purpose and scope 21 05. Transport funding 29 06. Auckland’s transport challenges 33 07. Responding to Auckland’s transport challenges 47 08. Measuring outcomes 77 09. Inter-regional priorities 85 10. Funding and expenditure 91 11. Appendices 99 VERSION TO AT BOARD 28 JUNE 2 Auckland Regional Land Transport Plan 2021–2031 01. Introduction from the Chair VERSION TO AT BOARD 28 JUNE To come 3 Introduction from the Chair Auckland Regional Land Transport Plan 2021–2031 VERSION TO AT BOARD 28 JUNE Introduction from the Chair 4 Auckland Regional Land Transport Plan 2021–2031 02. Context Auckland, Tāmaki Makaurau, is home to 1.7 million people – one third of all NewVERSION Zealanders – and TO is forecast to grow by another 260,000 overAT the BOARD next decade, reaching around 2.4 million by 2050. This 28rapid JUNE population growth presents a number of challenges in our quest to be a liveable, climate-friendly and productive city. Growth represents opportunity but Evidence tells us that Aucklanders Auckland needs a well-coordinated when combined with Auckland’s like the improved experience, and integrated approach to help challenging natural setting and particularly on rapid and frequent people and freight get around urban form the outcome has bus and train services where quickly and safely – one that been increased congestion and the number of trips has almost significantly reduces harm to the limited connectivity. When we doubled in 10 years. environment and where there are add in housing affordability, a multiple transport choices. In 2019, Tāmaki Makaurau global climate emergency and achieved a milestone with more This Auckland Regional Land the Covid-19 health pandemic, than 100 million public transport Transport Plan 2021-2031 outlines Auckland has a lot to contend with. boardings made – the first time our response to these challenges Over the past 20 years, Auckland’s that number had been achieved over the next 10 years. civic leaders and central since the early 1950s, but we need government have significantly many more Aucklanders to access boosted investment in transport better transport choices to reduce and significant effort has gone into congestion, greenhouse gas providing Aucklanders with more emissions (GHG) and deaths and choices about how they travel serious injuries (DSI) on our roads. around the region. A committed More than a third of Aucklanders effort has been made to improve live within 500 metres of a frequent bus, train and ferry services and public transport service, yet the develop better infrastructure majority of us still choose to use for those who walk and want our private motor vehicle for most to use a bike. of our trips. 5 Auckland Regional Land Transport Plan 2021–2031 The big picture – what has changed This year, the New Zealand Climate Change Commission issued its advice to central government. Transport since the last RLTP features strongly with advice to decarbonise the light While it’s only been three years, a lot has happened that vehicle fleet, step up to challenging growth targets for makes updating the Auckland Regional Land Transport public transport, walking and cycling, and reduce the Plan 2018-2028 (2018 RLTP) necessary. need to travel through remote working practices. The 2018 RLTP represented a step-change in transport In 2019, an additional 16,600 cars (330 per week) investment for Aucklanders, with a transformational were registered in Auckland, adding to congestion, programme to tackle existing and future transport contributing to increased emissions, clogging freight problems. The introduction of a Regional Fuel Tax (RFT) movements and costing Aucklanders time and money. and a $28 billion package to deliver 14 large-scale The road transport system contributes to 38.5 percent of infrastructure projects provided the region with certainty Auckland’s emissions and the Commission’s advice and and sparked accelerated momentum. central government’s response to it is critical to tackling climate change. Focus on climate Aucklanders tell us they are supportive of tackling Late 2019 Auckland Council declared a climate climate change yet the way to successfully execute emergency, with strong pledges to introduce the transition is both complex and unclear. It must improved fuel emissions standards and accelerate the be tackled using both a systems and evidence-based decarbonisation of Auckland’s public transport bus approach, and result in equitable outcomes. fleet. In July 2020 the council unanimously passed the Te Tāruke-ā-Tāwhiri: Auckland’s ClimateVERSION Plan, which TO boldly aims to halve Auckland’s GHGs by 2030. The plan’s main transport actions are to encourageAT more BOARD of us to utilise public transport and active modes, decarbonise Auckland Transport (AT) contracted buses, and advocate to central government for policies28 to JUNE support lower and zero-emission vehicles. Context 6 Auckland Regional Land Transport Plan 2021–2031 Context cont. The Impact of Covid-19 Review of Auckland Council The team of five million has done a great job managing Controlled Organisations the risks of Covid-19. As a result, the economic impacts In 2020 the Independent Review of Auckland have been less than many initially anticipated. The Council Controlled Organisations (CCOs) highlighted transport response has also been very good when opportunities to improve responsiveness as well as the 1 compared internationally and as a consequence, the delivery of minor projects. A key recommendation was use of buses, trains and ferries has been muchVERSION better that Auckland TO Council and AT work with the Ministry of 2 than almost all other international cities. Transport (MoT) and Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency But Covid-19 has changed the way we work andAT travel. BOARD(Waka Kotahi) to streamline funding processes. This The rise of office meeting software such as ‘Zoom’ goes to the heart of delivering the transport system and ‘Teams’, has significantly impacted transport in28 JUNEAuckland needs at a greater pace. Auckland, with major structural shifts in the need to travel for work purposes. People travel on buses, trains Transport system progress and ferries less frequently, while some have returned to Safety the perceived ‘safety’ of private motor vehicles.3 As a result, Covid-19 has severely impacted key cash revenue Consultation on the Draft 2018 RLTP showed that streams. AT has had to rely on greater funding support Aucklanders were firmly behind greater investment from Auckland Council, the National Land Transport to make the roading network safer. While much more Fund (NLTF) and the Covid-19 Response and Recovery needs to be done, subsequent investment has helped Fund to maintain services and top-up reduced capital to reduce the number of DSI across Auckland’s expenditure through the government’s ‘shovel-ready’ transport system. programme. In 2017, over 800 people died or were seriously injured Covid-19 has also impacted some parts of our on Auckland roads. DSI results have improved since the community harder, raising social equity issues. It’s 2017 peak, with 525 DSI recorded on Auckland roads raised the need for a continued focus on sustainable during 2020. This represents a 37 percent reduction, procurement practices and a heightened response to minimising the burden of road trauma on whanau and Māori, Pasifika and low income communities. saving hundreds of millions of dollars in socio-economic costs to New Zealand. But we can do better. Transport through the provision of supporting services can be an enabler of more housing supply and help Auckland continues to have one of the highest rates of shape the type of housing that is built. In 2021 housing pedestrian, cyclist and motorcyclist road deaths in the affordability and funding to provide roads for light world and, following the second Covid-19 lockdown in vehicles, freight, buses and people on bikes, as well Tāmaki Makaurau with less traffic on our roads, we saw as train and ferry services to support housing growth the average speeds at which people travel in their cars at the scale required, remain challenges to be solved. increase, along with a significant uplift in DSI. Eleven people died during the last two months of 2020 and a further seven people died on Auckland’s road network in February 2021 alone. 1 AT’s Covid-19 Response: A Review, January 2021, Draft for Discussion – An independent review completed by PwC 2 Covid-19 Ridership Evolution, March 17, 2021 prepared by UITP 3 AT RLTP Public Preferences Study, January 2021 7 Context Auckland Regional Land Transport Plan 2021–2031 Rapid and frequent train and bus services rapid bus services and Northern Busway extensions. The design of the Northwest Bus Improvements along Aucklanders have voted with their feet since the SH16 and electrification of the rail network from Britomart Train Station opened in 2003 and the Northern Papakura to Pukekohe are also underway. Busway opened in 2008. Use of these rapid transit networks has substantially increased, indicating that A third track between Wiri and Westfield is progressing. rapid and frequent public transport is critical to helping This will eventually allow express train services between people move around the city. Annual train patronage the south and the city centre and unlock more freight increased 755 percent between 2003 to 2019 (2.5 million capacity from the Ports of Auckland to distribution to 21.4 million) and annual bus patronage grew from centres throughout Auckland and other regions.
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